The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania will accept payments in cryptocurrencies for tuition – Bits Media

Wharton Launches Executive Certification Program in Blockchain and Digital Asset Economics, becoming the first business school from the group of elite Ivy League colleges.

Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania announced
about launching from 3 january 2022 year of the training program “Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets”. Program highlights will include learning standard digital asset valuation methodology – fundamental valuation of tokens (FTV), case studies and lectures featuring Wharton faculty and industry experts.

Algorand will participate in the program, Amazon Web Services, Forte, Hyperledger, SKALE and Synthetix, as well as guest speakers from Andreessen Horowitz, Circle, The Defiant, Forbes, Litecoin and the Unchained podcast.

The stated goal of the program is to empower business leaders and entrepreneurs to identify the driving forces behind cryptocurrency technologies and their practical applications for decision making..

 “We have developed a program for business professionals and managers of various profiles, including traditional finance, management and technology. It will allow us to harmonize theory and practice, necessary for interaction in a business context", – said
academic director of the Wharton program, Professor Kevin Werbach (Kevin Werbach).

In addition to US dollars, program participants will be able to pay for tuition in BTC and ETH. The cost of the training course is $3,800 and, as expected, it will attract several thousand students per year. Acceptance of cryptocurrency payments is powered by the Coinbase affiliate network.

In Russia, special courses and master classes, dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, offered to MSU students, HSE, MISiSa, МФТИ и СПбГЭУ.